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Melanism   Listen
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Melanism  n.  (Ethnol.) The character of having a high degree of pigmentation, as shown in dark skin, eyes, and hair.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Melanism" Quotes from Famous Books



... nearly all white, and the other I saw in the public garden at Bournemouth, with the peculiarity still more developed. A white martin, or swallow, came into the house of a friend near Aldington, and was regarded as an unfavourable omen. Melanism, the opposite of albinism, is rarer, and the only instance I have seen was that of a black bullfinch at Aldington; it had evidently been mobbed as a stranger by other birds of its kind, as it was injured and nearly dead when captured. I had the specimen stuffed as a curiosity, though I am not fond ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory



Words linked to "Melanism" :   disease of the skin, skin disease, melanosis, skin disorder



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